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Developers no longer need a developer kit to create games on their Xbox One. Microsoft has opened the platform to all developers now, and anyone can get started for free, with their retail Xbox One. @ShahedC Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/xbox-one-dev-mode More Content Step-by-step instructions for activating developer mode How do I get my game on Xbox One?…

Wordpress powers 25% of the internet, and hosts everything from blogs and personal projects to e-commerce sites. I want to show you how to create a free wordpress site of your own, utilizing Microsoft’s BizSpark program for Startups, and a Azure. Using Azure SQL as a database for Wordpres Typically, wordpress sites use MySQL…

@DaveVoyles OK I lied. I still don’t have a way of capturing RF out from your TurboGrafx. But everything else works fine, (especially old consoles) I’ve tried it! In this video I show you how to use a capture card, such as AverMedia’s Live Gamer Extreme in tandem with OBS (Open Broadcast Software) to record and…

@DaveVoyles Curious as to how you can speed up your JavaScript and HTML5 code with some simple tricks? Well this short video will quickly demonstrate a bevvy of ways that you can improve the performance of your front-end app. Sure, you’ll never get the performance of a native application, but the CPU and GPU in…

@DaveVoyles Do you ever watch people on Twitch.tv or YouTube livestream themselves playing a game, or put together really professional videos about “how to” do something? Well it’s not limited to just professionals anymore — you can do it to. It’s not limited to people playing games either. Livestreaming your game dev or programming work is…

TLDR: Type safety, productivity, intellisense, and debugging. UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 In continuing with my recent trend of using TypeScript, I wanted to illustrate how to create functions and variables in TypeScript, because this initially threw me into a loop. The code for this example can be found here. JavaScript and C#…

TLDR: Use typings install –ambient <name of framework> to install type definitions UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 The code for this project can be found in this repository. I’m still pretty new to TypeScript and trying to get the hang of things. One thing I’ve had a difficult time with is getting type…

Picture this scenario: I want to create a website and use GitHub for source control. How can I have Azure websites point to my GitHub account and pull the code from there? Why do this? With this setup, I can make changes to my code base, from any machine in the world and push it…

View the VorlonJS dashboard and test site What problem do these two things solve? ManifoldJS aims to make the life of a mobile developer easier than ever, by utilizing Web App Manifests, which allowing websites to declare app-like properties. ManifoldJS uses that standard for those platforms that support it, but falls back to Cordova for those…

So I play a lot of games (Heroes of the Storm!) and I frequently want to record what I’m doing, so that I can provide commentary for others, but also so that I can learn from my mistakes. I generally use a tool like Camtasia for my recording and editing, especially outside of gaming, but…